On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 11:44 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > > Here's a proposal from me: > > Suggested F25 change: add an ostree-based workstation variant > > We've started various aspects of the work required for it, so we > > should > > make this an official goal and put together a page to coordinate > > it. > I have a few questions... > > * What is the advantage to users of having such a variant? > > * Are there behind-the-scenes advantages (as with Wayland)? > > * Is it expected that all software will be installed via xdg-app? > - including some of the base applications? > - if so, can we be ready for the release engineering changes > required for F25? > - if not, what _is_ the mechanism for installing applications? > - and does having applications installed in some non-container > mechanism negate the advantages above? > > And, also, you know my perennial question here: can we bring this > into > greater alignment with Atomic so that we a) have a unified story for > users and developers and b) aren't splitting our resources? > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AtomicWorkstation has some answers to your questions. As for closer alignment with Atomic, I have heard both your opinion (yes, make this part of the atomic umbrella) and the opposite (no, atomic is already too much of a grab bag of stuff). I personally think aligning with Atomic is the right idea. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
